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was kind of organic when you think about it, a bunch of hot-ass kids dancing around in capes and tights having a blast. People saw it and wanted a slice of the pie. Boom, TT was born! Where did the name Tighttigers originate/what does it mean? I get asked this so often... It honestly just came from that saying “tight like a tiger”, which generally meant that your pants are super tight. It used to make us laugh if one of us had some seriously tight pants on. Now when I think of it, I think more on the “she’s tight like a tiger” as in “yeah that chick is rad”. It however you want to interpret it! Tell me a little bit about your journey from the beginning to now. Jesus, lol, how many pages do you have spare in this magazine? The word dream doesn’t always sit well with me. I prefer the word “goal” or “idea”. Dreams tend be these things that people
think they can’t obtain. However, you can if you make it a goal of yours to get it done. Shove it on your “to do” list and your halfway there! Creatively you should just let the wind take you where it blows. The TT journey is still evolving, we started off with a bunch of friends whacking our stuff on at parties and fun photo-shoots to doing a full on runway show on top of a rooftop pool a year later. We have artists constantly using our stuff in their film clips and we are now about to re-launch our new shopping website where TT is exclusively sold. It’s only been 2 years but it’s been a lot of hard work. You also have to start thinking more realistically in the current economic times. You have to sympathise with how everyone is feeling, and how the market is changing. Its not all rainbows I’m afraid, but we try to make it as fun as we can for everyone involved.
Do you have your own design team or do you come up with all the designs yourself? I still do most of everything but I get a tonne of help from my pattern designer, Edwina Lye. My girlfriends try and test everything out constantly too, and they also have a tonne of criticism to heap onto pieces that just don’t work. Like I said, its all about the team around you. And by team, I don’t mean employees or colleagues, I mean your own personal team in life. Whether it be your dad and brothers, or your best friends from primary school, or your boyfriend, or a giant mix of everyone.
PHOTOGRAPHY: ©TIGHTTIGERS WRITTEN: JENNIFER MAPLETOFT